Recovery efforts in areas of North Carolina affected by Hurricane Helene are being disrupted by reports of militia activity targeting FEMA workers. According to a Sunday report from The Washington Post, federal emergency response personnel paused work in an area of Rutherford County, N.C., and relocated personnel after receiving reports that an “armed militia” was “hunting FEMA.”
According to the Post, the incident took place on Saturday. Several agencies involved in hurricane response efforts received an email from a U.S. Forest Service official notifying them that “FEMA has advised all federal responders Rutherford County, NC, to stand down and evacuate the county immediately. The message stated that National Guard troops ‘had come across x2 trucks of armed militia saying there were out hunting FEMA.’” Aid workers stationed in that area returned on…
